In 12 minutes, you'll have a spelling routine you can use to teach any word! 🔠
Head to literacypodcast.com/podcast to listen to Episode 96, minutes 9 through 21.

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Q: When it comes to spelling instruction, where can I learn more?

A: We recommend the book Brain Words 🧠 Listen 🎧 to episode 96 to get a sneak peek of the book!

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LISTEN AGAIN! WHAT ABOUT SPELLING?!
In Episode 96, Richard Gentry talks about the links between spelling and reading. He shares practical routines you can use in your classroom!

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This is going to blow your MIND! 🤯

🎧 In episode 96, we talked to Richard Gentry, author of Brain Words. 🧠 He told us that when students practice encoding, or spelling, by representing sounds with letters it actually helps their decoding, or word reading! 📝 📖

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We answer your TOP 50 Qs about teaching reading in our new book, The Literacy 50-A Q&A Handbook for Teachers: Real-World Answers to Questions About Reading That Keep You Up at Night. 😍

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Regularity is a continuum, starting with regular and ending with very irregular. 🌈 We can draw students' attention to irregular parts of words with the Heart Word Strategy 💟

🎧 Listen to Episode 190 to learn all about how to teach Heart Words!

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🎧 Hooray for the weekend! Have you listened to our latest episode featuring Jessica Farmer from Farmer Loves Phonics?

She shares tips about heart words and more that you can use in your classroom!

📚NEW EPISODE: QUICK TIPS FROM OUR TEACHER FRIEND!

❤️ Jessica Farmer (@FarmerLovesPhonics) shares tips for teaching HEART WORDS.

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What is orthographic mapping?

👀 Watch to find out!

🎧 Hear more from Jessica Farmer on tomorrow's NEW episode!
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❓What are heart words? Are they research-based? Should I teach them?
💙 Melissa answers these questions for you! And this article is a great place to learn more: ow.ly/9Q3950R5VBE

This Friday, Jessica Farmer from Farmer Loves Phonics, shares some quick tips for teaching heart words in our new episode. Here is her definition of heart words! ❤️

If you want to learn more, here is a great article that Jessica recommends. ❤️ ow.ly/jNVc50R57Gc

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Release day is June 5! 🥳

How can we build on the language skills students already have while teaching phonics? Julie shares how 75% of her kinders are reading CVC words by November (yup, you read that right, it's not a type-o!).

🎧🎧 Listen to episode 189 on your favorite podcast app! 🎧🎧

Happy National Schwa Day! 🥳

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